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26 August
3 August
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it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.
20 May
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Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel — the maintainers agreed that at their December 2025 summit.Their words
The big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel. That was really big for us compared to the previous year.
19 March
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
16 November 2025
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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.
22 March 2025
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I think there's this whole idea, I call it a denial of attention. I think there's an entire attack vector that's going to be happening. We're using LLMs to generate fake bug reports, fake all these things to just actually effectively to demotivate and hurt open source maintainers.
8 July 2024
From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.Their words
Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
1 April 2024
From one piece You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It means that anything you offer must fit in 1h per month. That is it. And if it does not, if it needs more involvement than that, we, as maintainers, will not do it. At all.
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This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
2 February 2023
From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support.Their words
Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of large companies. Foundations on average don’t pay maintainers.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
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This is how I frame it: if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go unmaintained is measured in engineer-months, that’s a critical dependency and retaining its maintainers probably makes good business sense.
31 December 2022
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
11 December 2021
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